Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:23:36 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: aterm -e screen does not source .bashrc (was: Re: been buggin' me for a while now (console resolution)) Message-ID: <20060711132336.GB77495@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <20060711130938.72503.qmail@web60014.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060711125448.GA77175@gothmog.pc> <20060711130938.72503.qmail@web60014.mail.yahoo.com>
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On 2006-07-11 09:09, Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> wrote: > I have the following in my .xinitrc file: > > aterm -e screen & > > What is happening is that neither /etc/profile nor ~/.profile are > being read. How can I get either of them to be sourced? By default, xterm, rxvt, aterm and various other terminal emulators start non-login shells. This means that .profile is not sourced by the shell spawned by the terminal. You can enable a `login shell' inside one of these terminal emulators with the -ls option: aterm -ls -e screen &
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